In the Shadow of a Man, 2012

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The mood of In the Shadow of a Man is thought provoking and sincere. The plot centers around a revolution, feminism, and rebellion. It is a foreign, documentary, and historical movie. Stylistically, In the Shadow of a Man involves multiple stories and stars a strong female character. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is Egypt and the Middle East. In the Shadow of a Man happens in contemporary times.

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Wafaa, Suzanne, Shahinda, Badreya are four women from different backgrounds...
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Wafaa, Suzanne, Shahinda, Badreya are four women from different backgrounds who belong to different generations. They are connected by the current changes in Egypt before and after the revolution as well as their quest for self-determination. This film interweaves their stories and images from their everyday lives into a powerful, intimate and politically explosive portrait in which the ‘little’ things that inform the lives of these four women – their thoughts, their experience of marriage and their wedding night, divorce, family, violence, abuse, work and migration – come together to form an impressive social portrait. Theirs is a bid for power sharing, but gender emancipation will never be achieved in isolation, as the documentary's young director Hanan Abdalla says, without the social and political changes that Egypt is currently fighting for.
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